I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

D. Toklas on September 8 1907 on Toklas' first day in Paris at Sarah and Michael Stein's apartment. Toklas which became a literary bestseller.

". The advent of this book elevated Stein from the relative obscurity of cult literary figure into the light of mainstream attention. She was born in West Allegheny (Pittsburgh) Pennsylvania raised in Oakland California and moved to Paris in 1903 making France her home for the remainder of her life.